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has anyone made a harmony breakdown for urania propitia?? trying to figure things out for a college showcase performance right now

(and if not, would people like me to post one here once i figure it out?)

#urania propitia #pulp musicals #the brick satellite

There is something so beautiful about Urania Propitia for me. The harmonies are great, but just the thought of these 3 women that are SO SMART and have probably been shut down their entire lives.

Anna went through university, that was so rare!!! Hershey was probably one of the few guys who believed in her and wasn't insanely jealous! We all heard how Charles reacted to her being in charge.

Rose was a poor immigrant!!! How many minds are being wasted because they don't have access to the resources that those with money do?? She probably was told to "smile and stop worrying about sciences, those are for men"!!!

And even though Margaret had money, she was still a woman. Probably more so than Rose, was she told that she should stop worrying and just marry well!

AHH I'm just so obsessed, it literally brought a tear to my eye.

#the brick satellite #anna hanover #rose stafford #margaret cavendish #pulp musical spoilers #pulp musicals #urania propitia

No… no… hang on, because I’ve cried multiple times listening to this song because of the themes and the vocals, but like… just had a Lightbulb moment 💡… was listening rn and I just gotta talk about this bit in Urania Propitia from Pulp Musicals Episode 2: The Brick Satellite

MARGARET: To the women of the galaxy/Who never got the fame

ROSE: You’ve given me the courage not to write/Under my brothers name

ANNA: You’ve given me the blueprint/And you’ve given me the tools

ANNA, MARGARET, ROSE: History is rarely made/By those who write the rules

Because this line ALWAYS ALWAYS makes me think about the ‘Well-behaved women seldom make history’ quote and that phrase and how it’s so often used to be about women needing to MAKE NOISE rather than in a somber remembrance of all those who DID what they were told, who FOLLOWED the rules because… that was what was expected of them, or even women who didn’t follow the rules and protested and fought back, but weren’t the ones leading the charge, and they were left behind by history because of it. And while there’s much more nuance there that I don’t have the brain power for rn, I tend to sort of… despair sometimes for these women because it doesn’t even TAKE long for this happen even NOW, just a few generations before their names are GONE.

And I LOVE this bit in Pulp for this very reason, which I only literally JUST pieced together in my mind. (Like ofc i knew this line and loved it too, but I didn’t connect it my thoughts about that quote before just now)

The women of Pulp point this out. They toast to them, these women that ‘never got the fame’, never got to be able to do what they wanted, what they could’ve excelled at had they been given the opportunity. And more than that, they THANK them.

Margaret, Rose and Anna are saying: I’ll never know you, but I see you anyway, and I thank you because you’re why I’m able to be here. You are the reason I know things need to change and it’s scary but you’ve inspired me to try my damn best to do that in the ways I can.

And I just… 🥹